Re: What's up with pear?: Windows Install Sucks

Nowhere is it documented that the following script is used to install PEAR on Windows. php -n -r "include 'http://go-pear.org';" It's only when one inadvertently goes to http://go-pear.org to see how the PHP install script works do you realize that this is how it's accomplished. Its most annoying the PEAR support is sorely lacking for Windows. Further the go-pear install script makes the rather naïve assumption that my PHP and resulting PEAR folder are on the C:\ drive. Mine happened to be on the D:\ drive, where I do all development. So during the install prompt, I say to install at D:\php. The installer puts some elements in D:\php\pear, but creates another folder C:\php4\pear and installs other pear there-for a total disconnect. My advice is to immediately disable the go-pear script for Windows installs or fix it. Seaquest http://www.seaquest.com ---------------------- "Till Dawn" <naturalkiller@gmx.net> wrote in message news:20030212122405.70104.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Hy everybody > > What the hell is wrong with PEAR? The current situation on PEAR is pissing > me off. That pear is not included in PHP anymore might be acceptable, if > there would be another possibility to get it on a normal way, for a > windows-user. But there is none. Not even a base-packet to download. Only > that goddamn go-pear is offered for installing and not even this is included > in the actual PHP-release. Happily announcing the possibility to use it with > lynx on your *nix. Fuck Lynx. This peace of grap is not working on windows, > neither as command-line nor in my browser. How could you ever think about > comparing yourself with CPAN? This ignorance to exclude all windows-users > until you found a way to get your installer to work can only be a joke. But > not enough. Your website, where the packets are listed is not only terrible > to navigate, it's also deadly slow, so that for me there is no practical way > to get an actual PEAR-release. Where is the problem to offer a PEAR-packet > to download? If you like to, I would even get it as tar.bz! The answer, that > pear becomes tooooo big, is not worth to think about. We're living in the > age of DSL! Does Mandrake stops download of their distribution, because it's > becoming to big? Huhu, don't break your head on someneelse's brain, I need > PEAR, and I would even download it if its 100GB big. But what? Im only using > windows. Im not even worth, that you read this message. Just keep sitting in > front off your favorit shell and wait for the Linux world-domination. Good > luck > > Your 'pissed-off' Till Dawn >